Breaking News: Secretary of State Declares Anthony Adams Recall Fails
November 20, 2009 | 06:00 PM | 0 Comments
Wow -- didn't see this one coming: the recall attempt against Assemblyman Anthony Adams, sparked by his providing the passing vote in the Assembly for the record state tax increase this spring, has...
read more »AD72 Special Election Watch: Fleischman Interviews Lewis On How Norby Won
November 20, 2009 | 01:41 PM | 0 Comments
FR publisher Jon Fleischman conducted and posted this interview with former state Sen. John Lewis (for whom I worked from 1991 to 1994), about his successful quarterbacking of the Norby for...
read more »LA Times & OC Register: Whose Delivering Whom?
November 20, 2009 | 01:16 PM | 0 Comments
A friend of mine who lives in north Orange County called me this morning with an interesting tale.
He subscribes to both the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register. As readers know, the...
read more »OC Blog News Roundup - November 20, 2009
November 20, 2009 | 12:53 PM | 0 Comments
Today's top stories from behind the Orange Curtain:
Mickadeit: Anaheim Deputy Chief In Sheriff's Race (OCR)
The race for Orange County sheriff got significantly more interesting this week with the...
read more »Anaheim Mayor Candidate Tom Tait Holds Monster Kick-Off Fundraiser
November 19, 2009 | 05:09 PM | 8 Comments
Former Anaheim Councilman Tom Tait's campaign for Mayor is metastasizing into a freight train of momentum.
Current Mayor Curt Pringle, who is close friends with Tom (whose last two years on the...
read more »CUSD Watch: School Organization Bureaucracy Sticks To Sticking District With a Big Bill
November 19, 2009 | 03:01 PM | 1 Comment
The Orange County Committee on School District Organization -- the LAFCO of the OC public school system -- last night stuck to it's ill-considered decision to force the Capistrano Unified School...
read more »Art Pedroza Apparently Thinks NAMBLA Is Funny
November 19, 2009 | 12:20 PM | 15 Comments
Dan Chmielewski posts over at TheLiberalOC.com about the latest morally-retarded antics of local nutter Art Pedroza. In short, the OC fringe-o-sphere's version of Jack Merridew has been buying...
read more »Absurdity From "In God We Trust" Opponents
November 19, 2009 | 12:01 PM | 2 Comments
Check out this this item from the Daily Pilot's "The Political Landscape" column, in which a Costa mesa resident claims the publlic display of the national motto is "divisive":
A...
read more »OC Blog News Roundup - November 19, 2009
November 19, 2009 | 11:17 AM | 0 Comments
Today's top stories from behind the Orange Curtain:
Editorial: Norby In The Driver's Seat (OCR)
Norby likely replacement for Duvall.
Low Turnout In Orange County Assembly Race Rekindles...
read more »AD72 Special Election Watch: Tale of Two Election Night Parties
November 18, 2009 | 01:36 PM | 10 Comments
Last night, I visited the election night parties of the two major candidates in the 72nd Assembly District race. It was a strange situation, because the election gathering of these bitterly opposed...
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